It is not improper for a lawyer to enter into a contract with his client and a
medical expert whereby the medical expert furnishes technical assistance on a
contingent fee basis.

The Committee recognizes the reality noted in Schackow v. Medical-Legal
Consulting Service, Inc., 416 Md. App. 179, 414 A.2d 1303 (1980) that a
client who can only afford a lawyer under a contingent fee arrangement can
hardly be expected to be able to pay a consultant on some other basis. Where
the extent of the lawyer's involvement in the contract between expert and
client is solely to acknowledge the client's assignment, for purposes of paying
the expert's fee out of a portion of any settlement proceeds coming into the
lawyer's hands, such participation by the lawyer is not improper. The
proscription in DR:7-108(C) applies to expert witnesses, not to consultants.
[See II: DR:5-103(B).]